France

Europe & Central Asia · Paris

Rank #8 of 173

77.2Strength score

Photos

**French Army Leader Talks To Dogface Soldiers (7761195)**U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Dre Stout · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

**Cardiff , French Navy Ship - Thetis A785 - geograph.org.uk - 3914870**Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

**Finnish Air Force Hawker Hurricane warbird and US Navy T-6 Texan warbird in flight over Finland**Peng Chen · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Strength by area

Finance90
Air power70
Manpower83
Land forces66
Naval power75
Nuclear69

Finance

Defence budget: $68.0B #9
Budget as % of GDP: 2.03% #71
Spending per person: $990 #25
GDP: $3.37T #7
Population: 68,720,337 #23

Manpower

Active personnel: 203,900 #25
Reserve personnel: 38,100 #27
Paramilitary: 126,600 #17
Total personnel: 368,600 #26

Land forces

Tanks: 427 #22
Armoured vehicles: —
Self-propelled artillery: 74 #29
Towed artillery: 0
Rocket launchers (MLRS): 9 #37

Air power

Total aircraft: 974 #10
Fighter jets: 223 #12
Attack aircraft & bombers: 0
Transport aircraft: 118 #6
Helicopters: 452 #8
Attack helicopters: 67 #8

Naval power

Total naval vessels: 51 #28
Aircraft carriers: 1 #6
Helicopter carriers: 3 #5
Submarines: 9 #11
Destroyers: 11 #7
Frigates: 5 #28
Corvettes: 0
Patrol vessels: 22 #31

Nuclear

Nuclear warheads: 370 #4

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Weapons France uses (1)

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LeclercMain battle tanks

Weapons made in France (6)

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LeclercMain battle tanks

Renault FTLight tanks

AMX-30Main battle tanks

AMX-13Light tanks

Schneider CA1Light tanks

R-35Light tanks

Others in the region

2Russian Federation95.0 VS
10United Kingdom74.7 VS
12Turkiye73.3 VS
18Greece68.9 VS
19Germany68.2 VS
20Italy67.8 VS
24Spain67.0 VS
27Ukraine65.8 VS

Source

Budget, GDP, population and personnel: World Bank open data (SIPRI / IISS based). (Defence budget: 2025)

IISS Military Balance via Wikipedia (personnel); Global Firepower 2026 inventory lists (equipment); FAS Status of World Nuclear Forces 2026 (warheads) · Year 2026 · ↗